Blizzard - Good Video

Well, our phone/Internet/cable finally came back on this evening after about 24 hours of being off. Yay! So, I didn't have much time to update my blog due to our Internet outage. Joe and I were both home again today. The side street we were parked on finally got plowed (sorta) so we went and dug our car out, well, Joe did, because we only have one shovel. :-)
On Wednesday after the snow stopped we got out and I took a lot of photos of our neighborhood and all the snow. I will post them soon, I got lots of good ones.
As for now, I have to get to bed because I work tomorrow all day and also have another interview in the middle of the day, but I wanted to share this video. Lots of good videos have been taken by random Chicagoans and are being posted on You Tube and shared. I think this one is good and shows how horrible Lakeshore Drive was the morning after the blizzard. It looks other-worldly when you see all the cars abandoned there. It's so strange to see that scene where drive on many times per week. Craziness.

Blizzard 2011 - Part 4

Here's a little video I took this morning. It was still snowing at this point and it was before they came to shovel our building. We didn't go far.

SnOMG! Blizzard! Part 3

We woke up this morning to about 19.5 inches on the ground with HUGE drifts and its STILL coming down. It took Joe 3 hours to get home yesterday from the suburb where he works. I got home quickly on the train, but for my friends who take the bus, one of them was stuck on Lakeshore Drive for 6 hours in the bus! There was an accident and then that backed up traffic, everyone left downtown early trying to get home. She ended up taking 4 different buses and then walking a mile in the snow only to get home at midnight! They closed Lakeshore Dr. last night but tons of cars were stuck. Here's a short video we found on You Tube that someone took this morning of the drive (below). Note all the cars still stuck! People were stuck in their cars for 12 hours! They got everyone out at 5:30 this morning! Nuts!
We are staying home today, school and work is closed. Pretty much the whole city is shut down. I'm going to take the dogs out since Louie wants to go play. We'll see how this goes!

Chicago Blizzard of 2011 Part 2

We all made it home safely. My walk from the train was HORRIBLE. My hood was blowing off, snow slapping me in the face from every direction, hands numb through my gloves, wind whipping like crazy!

As I sit here and type now I hear the wind whistling through our new and old windows. Its really cold in here! Darn it, this drafty old apartment!! I just put some plastic wrap on our back door because there was a little pile of snow inside the door because it is blowing right through the cracks! AHHH!
I took some photos (through the snowy window of course) just after I got home. Looks like it's going to snow all night. They are still saying we're going to get 15-20 inches. They are saying the winds could create up to 24 foot waves on the lakeshore and Lakeshore Drive is now closed due to blowing snow and high winds (and danger of high waves).
Pics from out the window when I got home at 5:00. Tomorrow morning will be quite a different scene I'm sure!

View Out of Our Window

Alley Behind Out Building

Chi Blizzard of 2011

I'm at school working now, but the blizzard they have been hyping up on the news has officially started...(current doppler radar image above looks pretty nasty).  It's supposed to be as bad or worse than the big Chicago Blizzard of 1967 when they got 20+ inches. They are saying it's going to be a record breaking snow for Chicago with blizzard conditions and 20 foot waves and lake flooding on Lake Michigan due to the 50mph winds we are supposed to get on Wednesday. School has been called off for tonight's classes and tomorrow morning (Wednesday). Most businesses are closing early today and are closed tomorrow. Luckily Joe is off tomorrow, and now so am I.

Joe is on the way home now, his company let them go at 3:00, but he said he probably won't get home until his usual time because things are moving so slow. uh oh....

We are getting out of class now (early) so I'm heading out.

Here are some pics from the 1967 blizzard. I'm hoping it's not this bad, but we shall see!